The refusal of the textile fiber factory planned by Altri in Palas de Rei (Lugo) once again brought together this Sunday thousands of people in Santiago de Compostela in a mobilization called by Ulloa Viva, the Ría Defense Platform … of Arousa (PDRA), the Neighborhood Platform against Mina de Touro-O Pino and a dozen other entities, in addition to having the support from the PSdeG and the BNG.
In addition to the usual nationalist “estreleiras”, among the symbols and objects carried by the participants who occupied part of the Plaza del Obradoiro, there were the umbrella. Not because it was raining, since the weather was kind to the demonstrators on this occasion, but because they were decorated with tree leaves with the intention of symbolizing a forest.
In statements at the Alameda de Compostela before the start of the march, Ulloa Viva spokesperson Marta Gontá explained that “we are here to defend that the resources we have are intended for our daughters and sons and not so that they end up in the hands of companies that only bring us poverty.
The national spokesperson of the BNG, Ana Pontón, expressed her opposition to the “the industrial Francoism of macrocellulose, this is the only thing that Mr. Rueda can offer us”, the protagonist of some banners.
In the middle of the Tome affair, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro was not for the PSdeG, but his number 2, Lara Méndez, who asked the president of the Xunta to make public the “hidden” agreement that he has, according to him, with Altri.
The company sent a statement to the media regretting that “a part of society continues to have a negative perception” of a project which has been recognized by the STEP label by the European Commission, “reserved for industrial initiatives which contribute significantly to the strategic objectives of the European Union in industrial, technological and environmental matters”.
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